Cup



F. L. ADRIAN March 24, 1953 CUP Filed Jan. 26, 1950 Frank L. Adrian I IN VEN TOR.

BY Attorneys Patented Mar. 24, 1953 UNITED STAT FTENT OFFICE CUP 1 @laiin. 1

This invention relates to the class of drinking vessels, and more particularly to a sanitary drinking cup.

An object of this invention is to provide a drinking cup with means for causing the handle thereof to rise above the surface of a body of water on which the cup is floating.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a cup having an eccentrically displaced weighted portion opposed to the handle of the cup so that when the cup is floating on a body of water the handle will rise to insure the drinking water or the like from being touched or engaged by a persons hand.

When conventional cups are permitted to float on the surface of a body of water, it is entirely likely that the handle thereof will become immersed in the fluid. Therefore, it is necessary for a user to place his fingers in the drinking fluid in order to pick up the cup. Accordingly, it is a further object of the invention to provide means for making a cup readily and sanitarily engageable.

Still further objects of the invention reside in the provision of a sanitary drinking cup that is strong, durable, highly efficient in operation, simple in construction and design, capable of being made in a variety of external configurations, pleasing in appearance and quite inexpenslve.

These, together with the various ancillary objects of the invention which will become apparent as the following description proceeds, are attained by this sanitary drinking cup, a preferred embodiment of which has been illustrated in the accompanying drawings, by way of example only, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cup comprising the present invention operatively immersed and floating on a body of water; and

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the cup comprising the present invention.

With continuing reference to the accompanying drawings wherein like reference numerals designate similar parts throughout the various views, the reference numeral It! generally designates a bucket or the like in which a body of water I2 or other suitable drinking fluid is adapted to be emplaced. The drinking cup generally indicated at M is outwardly of conventiona1 design and comprises cylindrical side walls 16 and a bottom wall I8. A handle 20 of any convenient and ornamental design is afl'ixed to the side walls 16 preferably adjacent the upper portions thereof.

The bottom wall 18 is provided with a thickened portion 22 eccentrically disposed from the center thereof and at a portion most remote from the handle 20. Likewise, the cylindrical side walls 16 may readily have a thickened portion 24 formed therein at a portion remote from the handle 20. In this manner, when the cup I4 is positioned on a body of water, the weights 22 and 2:3 will cause the cup to sink in their direction and cause the handle 20 to rise so that it may be readily engageable by the fingers of any person desiring to drink the fluid l2. In this manner. a highly sanitary drinking cup is evolved.

Since from the foregoing the construction and advantages of this sanitary drinking cup are readily apparent, further description is believed to be unnecessary.

However, since numerous modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art after a consideration of the foregoing specification and accompanying drawings, it is not intended to limit the invention to the precise embodiment shown an described, but all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to which fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is A cylindrical drinking cup open at its top and including a bottom, and a handle on the upper, rear portion of the cup, said cup further including an internally and uniformly thickened lower front portion on its Wall and the adjacent portion of the bottom and of sufficient weight to overbalance the handle and tilt said cup forwardly beyond a vertical plane when floating in a body of liquid and maintain said handle uppermost for maximum accessibility, said thickened portion further constituting a reinforcement for said lower front portion of said cup.

FRANK L. ADRIAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 66,050 Smith June 25, 1867 610,285 Scoles Sept. 6, 1898 740,834 Fantoni Oct. 6, 1903 881,906 Cullen Mar. 17, 1908 1,324,305 Carrico Dec. 9, 1919 1,948,932 McMickle Feb. 27, 1934 2,143,027 Perry Jan. 10, 1939 

